Summit Learning and Experiments in Education
The use of personalized learning programs in public schools have prompted protests. Are there reasons for concern?
Death and Consciousness: The Prospect of Brain Resuscitation
New research involving brain resuscitation holds great promise and presents even greater challenges.
The Ethics of Brand Humanization
Corporations' push to attract a marketing-resistant demographic is producing some troubling effects.
Airplane Crashes and the Diffusion of Responsibility
How can we evaluate moral responsibility in cases like the Boeing airplane crashes?
Racist, Sexist Robots: Prejudice in AI
While we hope our AI creations will overcome human shortcomings, they all too often replicate the prejudicial patterns they see.
Sparking Joy: The Ethics of Medically-Induced Happiness
What should our outlook be on "medically induced" happiness? Is it the same as "natural" happiness?
Pinterest’s Block on Anti-Vaccination Content
Pinterest quietly removed anti-vaccination content from the site, making both 'anti-vax' and 'vaccine' unsearchable. Was this the right thing to do?
Nasty, Brutish and Online: Is Facebook Revealing a Hobbesian Dystopia?
Was Thomas Hobbes right about human nature, and is Facebook proving it?
Computer Simulations and the Ethics of Predicting Human Behavior
Computer simulations can be helpful in predicting human behavior, but what about when those predictions are immoral?
The Persistent Problem of the Fair Algorithm
Algorithms may seem like the perfect remedy to human error, but even algorithms can be biased.